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Virginia Shaft

Past Producer in Boulder county in Colorado, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Uranium, Zinc
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Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10238670
MRDS ID DC03438
MAS/MILS ID 0080130836
Record type Site
Current site name Virginia Shaft
Alternate or previous names Golden Key
Related records 10017410

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -105.37709, 40.05649 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boulder(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Estes Park(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greeley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Vrain(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Boulder

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -105.37709, 40.05649
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPO # 407398; CSM 22

  • Deposit

    OWN/ CARIBOU CLAIMS GROUP

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.